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by thebaer 11y ago
Agreed -- the G3 is the best Android phone I've owned in my 6 years of owning Android devices, and will be the first one I use until it doesn't work anymore, as opposed to upgrading on the 2 year cycle.
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by thebaer 11y ago
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I'm personally a fan of the style, and like explicitly seeing where the fault points in functions are, rather than having to memorize what exceptions might get thrown by what. But it can definitely cover many complex sit
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by thebaer 11y ago
I'm sure there are good uses for it, but I personally haven't found one yet. I mostly use Go's multiple return values to also return errors -- and that's really like using checked exceptions in Java. So whether it's
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by thebaer 11y ago
Haha, I'll take it. Go forth and wield your new power! I'm not able to find anywhere official documenting it, but yeah I don't believe it's new. Edit: prodigal_erik found it: https://golang.org/ref/s
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by thebaer 11y ago
Actually you can: https://play.golang.org/p/a-qhe_vRvo
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by thebaer 11y ago
Java also can't beat Go's concise syntax. Even compared to writing in IntelliJ, an awesome IDE for saving keystrokes, I relish the simplicity and brevity of Go code.
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Secret post-mortem(youtube.com)
3 points by thebaer 11y ago|0 comments
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by thebaer 11y ago
It's absolutely valuable if Mac / OS X is your first and only computing environment. But the hurdle comes when you work in multiple desktop environments, and everything else works similarly enough except for your Mac.
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by thebaer 11y ago
The point is that within these smartphone apps, there are often consumption and production elements. E.g. on Instagram, the app opens to a stream of activity (consumption). You have to tap a button to start to produce something. Compared to
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by thebaer 11y ago
Yes, Snapchat is a great example. I'd love to see more apps that work that way.
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by thebaer 11y ago
Do you use these tools more on your phone than your computer? Genuine question.
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by thebaer 11y ago
My point was that most apps on the App Store / Google Play (and therefore most of the ones you probably have installed) are heavily consumption-focused -- not that these utilities don't exist.
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by thebaer 11y ago
Of course; my point wasn't that these don't exist. Each device has its own strengths, and smartphones are really good consumption devices. I'd never build an entire application on a touchscreen phone, but I'd absolutely
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by thebaer 11y ago
> it's a consumption device rather than both consumption and production, is just silly It's not just the fact that it's an underutilized general computing device; just look at the apps on your phone and tell me the percent
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by thebaer 11y ago
The article isn't talking about the relative wealth of modern, industrialized/technologized society to medieval times. The point is that a single mom (with an 80% chance of being "poor or hovering on the nasty edges of workin
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by thebaer 11y ago
> In fact, try to constantly find many small changes that your team should make, just to keep them on their toes. I worked for someone early in my career who followed every item on that list, especially this one. It made me pause -- I th
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by thebaer 11y ago
It's simple, but I've found Google Fit to be great just for staying active (especially as an Android Wear owner -- though that's not necessary). It's great about subtly notifying you about how active you've been all
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by thebaer 11y ago
Now I'm getting ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS
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by thebaer 11y ago
At least now we'll have a decent editor we can continue to run ourselves when that happens. :)
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by thebaer 11y ago
The new Go extension [1] supports debugging as well. Just starting to play with it, but so far it's giving me a reason to start using VS Code. [1] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items/lukehoban.Go
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by thebaer 11y ago
These are good points, but I view their efforts on ARC more as them expanding the Chrome store's app catalog than Chrome OS completely eating Android. And as an aside, I think many developers simply don't devote the effort to full
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by thebaer 11y ago
HTMLhouse is more useful if you want to create a small or single-page static site, e.g. [1] -- I'd equate it more to an HTML-enabled pastebin, as far as form and functionality go. I'd also like to add an option for self-destructin
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by thebaer 11y ago
Cool, thanks. I'll see how I can work it in.
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by thebaer 11y ago
Thanks! 1. They're retained indefinitely, but adding the option to delete them automatically after some time would be pretty simple (it still needs a regular delete button). 2. HTMLhouse is meant to be more of a dead simple paste-and-g
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by thebaer 11y ago
Awesome!! Thanks!
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Show HN: HTMLhouse – write and share some HTML(html.house)
4 points by thebaer 11y ago|8 comments
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by thebaer 11y ago
How exactly would we be technologically poorer in this case? Would Amazon / B&N / Apple / any ebook distributor suddenly lose their impetus to develop ebook-reading tech / devices?
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by thebaer 11y ago
> You don't have to drive? They're saying you don't have to focus on driving. On a train you can watch the scenery pass and not pay attention to piloting your mode of transportation.
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by thebaer 11y ago
This guy (and his employer) is upset because, like in the music industry, consumer-driven countermeasures to questionable business practices are prompting new business models. And like the failed attempts at DRMing all the things, these &qu
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by thebaer 11y ago
You're absolutely right about the value of a support system. But different people need it to varying degrees. I think the bigger point is that when widely-respected entrepreneurs like PG automatically rule out those people who "su

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